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Picli, the Digg for Photos, Gets a Whole New Look

When we first reviewed Picli, our impressions were lukewarm. Sure, it was a nice idea - Digg-like site for photos only - but social media sites of that variety are just a Pligg install away, and the competition is fierce.

Well, Picli has just had a redesign, and it also got some new features. The redesign is subtle - the icons have changed a bit, and the site now seems a tiny bit cleaner and tidier than the first time we saw it.

As far as new features go, the one that strikes out is the translation of the entire site to French. Also, the site now offers both Atom and RSS feeds, an inbuilt search engine, and a favorites gallery, where you can store the images you like for later viewing. The light box, which contains the larger image and opens when you click on a thumbnail, is now improved - you can read the comments or vote directly through it.

The community on the site is still focused on beatiful, artsy images and pictures - there's no sign of lolcats or pictures of guys getting out of strip clubs. We like that, although we're not sure if this would stay the same if the site were to become more popular. Same goes for voting, which is currently anonymous.

While the new features aren't spectacular (some of them, like the search engine, are quite basic), Picli is moving forward, and they haven't given up on keeping the site very clean and easy on the eye. If we had to pick the upcoming Digg-like sites to make it big, Picli would be somewhere in the upper portion of the list, but the road ahead is still long and winding.

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